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of Franklin Furnace, X. J.; examples of the rare earths torbernite, 

 autunite, carnotite, davidite, tynyamunite, and cyrtolite, from various 

 localities, all of which are especially desirable in the present condi- 

 tion of our Imowledge regarding radioactivity, received from Mr. 

 Frank L. Hess, of the Geological Survey; 11 specimens of native 

 copper from Mexico, and 9 specimens of carnotite from Mauch 

 Chunk, Pa., received from Lehigh University; one of the few, pos- 

 sibly three, Imown specimens of the mineral sulphohalite, from Dr. 

 Samuel P. Sadtler, of Philadelphia, Pa.; an unusually large speci- 

 men of pollucite from Maine, from Mr. P. S. Dudley, of Buckfield, 

 Me.; a large mass of carnotite on davidite, from Mr. F. J. Spence, 

 of Adelaide, Australia; two specimens of ferberite, with chrysocolla, 

 and a new copper tungstate in pegmatite, from Mr. S. H. Brock- 

 unier, of Nevada City, Cal. ; a large mass of crystallized vivianite, 

 from Mr. Charles Brown and Mr. John Pearson, of Dent, Idaho; 

 and a stalactite coated with calcite and malachite crystals, an attrac- 

 tive exhibition specimen, from Mr. W. P. Jennings, of Salt Lake 

 City, Utah. The type specimens of inyoite and meyerhofferite, and a 

 large crystal of bloedite, all recently described by Dr. Schaller, were 

 deposited by the Geological Survey; and 14 good exhibition speci- 

 mens of pyrite and tetrahedrite were secured in exchange from the 

 Deseret Museum at Salt Lake City, Utah. 



All of the important accessions in petrology were received from 

 the Geological Survey. They consisted of the usual quadrangle 

 series from the following districts, namely, Eastport, Me. ; Colorado 

 Springs, Colo.; Philipsburg and Butte, Mont.; Tacoma, Wash.; 

 Deming, N. Mex.; Santa Cruz, Cal.; and Ellijay, N. C. ; besides a 

 collection illustrating Bulletin 492 of the Geological Survey, en- 

 titled "The gabbros and associated rocks of Preston, Conn.," and 

 a series of rocks collected by Mr. Whitman Cross at the Hawaiian 

 Islands in 1902, and yet to be described. 



Mr. Edgar T. Wherry, assistant curator of the division, who 

 came to the Museum only at the beginning of the year, has had 

 very little time for research work, having been mainly occupied with 

 routine duties. He prepared one brief paper for publication and 

 gave critical consideration to the nomenclature of minerals and the 

 correct stating of mineral localities, with the view of standardizing 

 the labeling of the collections. The assembling and preparation of 

 an exhibition series of radioactive minerals also engaged his at- 

 tention. 



Invertebrate paleontology. — The Smithsonian Institution deposited 

 about 150 type specimens of Cambrian fossils figured by Secretary 

 Walcott in volume 57, Nos. 9 and 13, of the Smithsonian Miscel- 

 laneous Collections, and about 5,000 specimens of the unexcelled 

 Middle Cambrian fossils from the Burgess shale of British Columbia, 



